Terminal device, infrastructure equipment and methods
AssigneesSony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
InventorsShin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Basuki Priyanto
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Abstract
A terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications network, the terminal device comprising: transceiver circuitry configured to receive data from the wireless telecommunications network, and a controller configured: to control the transceiver circuitry to receive control information, a control channel and a data channel wherein, the control information defines the period of time between the control channel and the data channel, and to ignore a subsequent control channel received during the period of time following the control channel.
Claims18
A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a terminal device, data from a wireless telecommunications network;
- receiving control information that defines a period of time between a control channel and a data channel;
- incrementing a number of grants in response to reception of the control channel;
- and
- ignoring a subsequent control channel received during the period of time following the control channel in a case that incrementing the number of grants, in response to the subsequent control channel, would render the number of grants greater than a predetermined number.
A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a terminal device, data from a wireless telecommunications network;
- receiving control information that defines a first period of time between a first control channel and a first data channel and a second period of time between a second control channel and a second data channel;
- ignoring the second control channel in a case that the second period of time is not greater than or equal to the first period of time;
- and
- processing the second control channel after processing the first control channel in a case that the second period of time is greater than or equal to the first period of time.
Integrated circuitry for infrastructure equipment, the integrated circuitry comprising:
- transceiver circuitry configured to transmit data over a wireless telecommunications network to a terminal device;
- and
- control circuitry configured to:
- control the transceiver circuitry to transmit control information that defines a period of time between a control channel and a data channel;
- increment a number of grants in response to receiving the control channel;
- and
- not transmit a subsequent control channel to the terminal device during the period of time following the control channel in a case that incrementing the number of grants, in response to the subsequent control channel, would render the number of grants greater than a predetermined number.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.